Category: National Newsletter

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! Nice socks. You have invested in our collective movement one way or another. Therefore, I want to fill you in the best way I know how, alphabetically. AIHM, ACLM, APHA – if you are going to any of these annual meetings in the next couple weeks, I would love to meet […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Vitamin C Good morning! How has your week been? Ours has been incredible. On with the show. We see Vitamin C showing up on a lot of medicine lists and I want to share this doctor’s opinion. For preventing the Common Cold – inconsistent results. A 5 year randomized trial in Japan showed […]

Taking the Stairs Beside Somebody Taking the Escalator (Awesome Thing #685) Remind me: Walk with a Doc is coming to 300 new communities by June 30th, 2018. We need your help. How can I help: Spread the word! Pick your favorite way to share each week from the options below. What’s in it for me: You’ll help to create […]

1 Million Extra Years Backstory Thanks to many, Walk with a Doc was given the honor of collaborating with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Together, with Spitfire Strategies, we set a moonshot goal of adding 300 New Walk Chapters to our family by 11:59p EST of June 30, 2018. How in the world are you going […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! Can you believe it’s Friday? Soak it ALL in because they won’t let you come back to work for 60 hours after this afternoon. I LOVE IT! Last night was so fun for me. It was our kids’ Meet the Teachers Night (high school) and always great fun. […]

Light Good morning! Our hearts continue to be with those suffering in the wake of Harvey and those in Irma’s path. We are terribly grateful to everyone who has helped and is helping the vulnerable down in Texas through the link we shared last week, www.texmed.org/harvey. Dr. Stratego Castenes,and her sister Maria, have been walking with […]

Good morning! You, our team and everyone else is thinking about Texas, Louisiana, Mexico, the Gulf Coast and everywhere else that was devastated this week by Harvey. You, maybe like us, are kind of speechless as we feel pretty much helpless. As you likely know, we have 46 chapters in Texas. Steve Levine and the […]

Good morning! A lot of people are talking about Monday’s eclipse and look, I get it. Perfect topic for a newsletter right? Well I googled ‘eclipse health benefits’ – none. That understood, the WNSC (Walk Newsletter Screening Committee) came to the conclusion, after our standingThursday 9:30 meeting, that we wanted to get away from the typical Friday am lunacy. We […]

Walk with a Doc Est. 1967 Good morning! Hope your week has been treating you well. Friday! We have some exciting news. We’re changing the date that Walk with a Doc was started. Our team has been reading up on some notable events of the 20th century (Polio Vaccine, Discovery of Penicillin, Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, etc). […]

Good morning! Hope you are enjoying the incredible weather. Despite all our attempts to protect our walkers from sharks, many weeks people say that want more “medical stuff” in our newsletter. They want more “science”. Well, we’re listening and this week is for you. My cardiology service call wraps up Monday am at 0700 and […]